Bosnian Muslims

May 26 - The bodies of 66 Bosnian Muslims, murdered and dumped in the Drina river 20 years ago, are buried in Visegrad in eastern Bosnia. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).  

A man accused of rounding up 200 Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in what is thought to be the bloodiest mass killing since World War Two has been found running a grocery store in LA. Dejan Radojkovic was arrested and deported to his native country to face ...  

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 fashioned a new life in Las Vegas as a modest grocery store owner before being arrested and deported to his native country, a lawyer and U.S. officials said Thursday. Dejan Radojkovic arrived in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, after an overnight commercial airline flight from Las Vegas accompanied by federal agents, Bosnian...  

(NewsCore) - The United States deported a former Bosnian Serb police chief Thursday to Sarajevo, to face charges for his alleged role in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of Bosnian Muslims, officials said. Dejan Radojkovic, 61, was handed over to ...  

A former Bosnian Serb police commander accused of playing a role in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica has been deported to his native country, U.S. officials said Thursday.  

A former Bosnian Serb police commander accused of playing a leading role in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica has been deported to his native country, U.S. officials said Thursday.  

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Bosnian Serb police commander accused of playing a leading role in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica has been deported to his native country, U.S. officials said Thursday. Dejan Radojkovic arrived in ...  

A former Bosnian Serb police commander accused of playing a leading role in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica has been deported to his native country, U.S. officials said Thursday.  

A man accused of commanding a police squad that rounded up Bosnian Muslims for slaughter in 1995 fashioned a new life in Las Vegas as a modest grocery store owner before being arrested and deported to his native country, a lawyer and U.S. officials said ...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnia’s war crimes court has sentenced two Bosnian Serbs to at least 30 years each in prison for genocide against Muslims in the eastern town of Srebrenica during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war. A court statement said Friday ...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnia's war crimes court has sentenced two Bosnian Serbs to at least 30 years each in prison for genocide against Muslims in the eastern town of Srebrenica during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. A court statement said Friday that Dusko Jevic, 44, was sentenced to 35 years and Mendeljev Djuric, 52, to 30 years in prison. The court said they were guilty of expelling Muslims from Srebrenica and for taking part in the...  

Mejra Dzogaz prays near the graves of her two sons near Srebrenica. Credit: Dado RuvicSerb ex-policemen get up to 35 years in jail for Bosnian genocideRusmir Smajilhodzic, Agence France-Presse/ posted with permission /SARAJEVO — A Bosnian court on Friday handed down stiff sentences against two former Bosnian Serb policemen for “aiding genocide” when they oversaw killings during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Bosniaks.Dusko Jevic and...  

Among the evidence presented at the Hague on Thursday were two videos that showed Mladic board a bus with Bosnian Muslims and address them, as the presiding judge delays the start of the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal because prosecutors had not fulfilled their obligation to share all their evidence with Mladic's lawyers.  

Bosnia's war crimes court has sentenced two Bosnian Serbs to at least 30 years each in prison for genocide against Muslims in the eastern town of Srebrenica during Bosnia's 1992-95 war.A court statement said Friday that Dusko Jevic, 44, was sentenced to 35 years and Mendeljev Djuric, 52, to 30 years in prison. The court said they were guilty of expelling Muslims from Srebrenica and for taking part in the killing of 1,000 prisoners after the...  

They were victims of a wave of ethnic cleansing in villages and towns near Bosnia's eastern border with Serbia in spring 1992, as Bosnian Serb forces under General Ratko Mladic seized 70 percent of the country. Arrested a year ago in Serbia after 16 years ...  

Bosnia's war crimes court has sentenced two Bosnian Serbs to at least 30 years each in prison for genocide against Muslims in the eastern town of Srebrenica during Bosnia's 1992-95 war. A court statement said Friday that Dusko Jevic, 44 ...  

[JURIST] US resident Dejan Radojkovic was deported to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on Thursday in order to face charges related to his actions as a police commander in Srebrenica during the Bosnian Civil War [JURIST news archive] in 1995. Radojkovic is accused of rounding up more than 200 Bonian-Muslims who were then taken to another area where they were executed. He immigrated to the US in 1999. After an investigation uncovered that...  

Military success eventually prompted the Allies to support the ... and Herzegovina were never totally transparent and always included Franjo Tuđman's ultimate aim of expanding Croatia's borders. Bosnian Muslims, the only ethnic group loyal ...  

LAS VEGAS — A former Bosnian Serb police commander accused of playing a leading role in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica has been deported to his native country, U.S. officials said Thursday. Dejan Radojkovic arrived in Sarajevo, Bosnia ...  

LAS VEGAS (AP) —  A former Bosnian Serb police commander accused of playing a role in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica has been deported to his native country, U.S. officials said Thursday. Dejan Radojkovic arrived in Sarajevo, Bosnia ...  

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A former Bosnian-Serb police commander wanted in his native country for his alleged role in the 1995 genocide of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica has been deported from the United States, authorities said on Thursday.  

A former Bosnian Serb police commander accused of playing a leading role in the 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica has been deported to his native country, U.S. officials said Thursday.

Dejan Radojkovic arrived in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, aboard a commercial airline after an overnight flight from Las Vegas accompanied by federal agents, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lori Haley said.  

Count 3: Persecutions on political, racial and religious grounds. Counts 4, 5, 6: Extermination and Murder of Bosnian Muslims, Bosnian Croats or other non-Serbs. Counts 7, 8: Deportation and Unlawful Attacks for the forcible transfer of Bosnian Muslims ...  

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deported a former Bosnian-Serb police commander wanted in his native country for genocide and atrocities against thousands of Bosnian Muslims, capping what ICE officials called a successful effort to investigate the case and remove him from the United States. Dejan Radojkovic, 61, arrived in ...  

Military success eventually prompted the Allies to support the ... and Herzegovina were never totally transparent and always included Franjo Tuđman's ultimate aim of expanding Croatia's borders. Bosnian Muslims, the only ethnic group loyal ...  

[JURIST] The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina [official website] on Thursday began the trial [press release] of eight Bosnian Muslims charged with abuse and torture of Serbian prisoners during the Bosnian Civil War [JURIST archive]. The prosecution claims that Serbian civilians were unlawfully detained and subjected to inhumane treatment [Reuters report] while being held in three detention camps during the 43-month siege of the Sarajevo suburb...  

Mladic, who was arrested in a village in northern Serbia last May ... Herzegovina has been divided into a federation of Bosnian Muslims and Croats, and the Serb Republic. Mladic's lawyers last week attempted to have the trial pushed back ...  

Seventeen years after he was indicted, the former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic is finally facing charges of genocide in 8 (eight) towns of Bosnia-Herzegovina: Bratunac, Foča, Ključ, Prijedor, Sanski Most, Vlasenica, Zvornik and Srebrenica.Al-Jazeera Debate: Did you know? Serb forces "targeted for extinction the 40,000 Bosnian Muslims living in Srebrenica. " Source: Judge...  

RATKO MLADIC WAR CRIMES TRIAL HALTEDThe trial of Bosnian Serb Ratko Mladic has been suspended indefinitely because of errors by the prosecution, which failed to hand evidence to the defence in time. Judge Alphons Orie said he hoped to set a new start date "as soon as possible". Mladic is accused of war crimes, including the genocide of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995. Mladic trial halted over 'errors' as 'Butcher' applauds...  

Bosnian Serb commander claps as court shows film of him in Srebrenica before massacre One-Minute Read LAST UPDATED AT 14:06 ON Thu 17 May 2012 THE GENOCIDE trial of Bosnian Serb warlord Ratko Mladic has been suspended indefinitely because of errors by the prosecution, which failed to hand evidence to the defence in time. The court was adjourned after the prosecution had finished setting out its case on...  

Ratko Mladić, former Commander of the Bosnian Serb Army (VRS) Main Staff, stands accused of genocide and a multitude of crimes committed against Bosniak civilians in eight (8) municipalities in Bosnia and Herzegovina from May 1992 to late 1995.The indictment alleges that forces under Mladić’s command committed genocide in Srebrenica and seven other municipalities. Amongst other crimes of genocide that took place in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serb...  

Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic has appeared at the Hague tribunal, accused of mass murder and the expulsion of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in the 1990s. Two decades on, many are still living in refugee camps.  

I agree with George Monbiot (My fight may be hopeless, but it is as necessary as ever, 22 May) that we cannot deny genocide if we care about justice and humanity, otherwise we will find ourselves in a "very dark place". As a junior UN official ...  

On day 2 of Ratko Mladic’s Bosnian genocide trial at the Hague, prosecutors focused on the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. (watch video Part I and II of May 17, 2012).Unexpectedly, judge suspended Ratko Mladic's genocide and war crimes trial indefinitely Thursday after prosecutors failed to disclose thousands of documents to the former Bosnian Serb military chief's defense team — a ruling that could delay the trial for months. Presiding judge...  

Former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic has gone on trial on 11 counts of war crimes at The Hague. Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic sits in the courtroom during his trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. (Picture: EPA/TOUSSAINT KLUITERS / POOL) His charges include genocide of Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Srebrenica, which saw 7,000...  

Bosnian Genocide: Photograph of a pile of bodies of killed Bosniaks (Bosnian Muslims) at exhumation site KK03 543 in the Srebrenica massacre. Courtesy: The International Criminal Tribunal at the Hague, Popovic et al. trial, Exhibit P03899.Author: Daniel ToljagaFormer Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is charged with two counts of Genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal at the Hague.The first count of genocide covers the period from...  

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the United Nations cannot be prosecuted in the Netherlands for failing to prevent genocide against Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica near the end of Bosnia's war in 1995.  

But long before then he had been patrolling former Yugoslavia, highlighting atrocities wherever he found them. Many Bosnian Serbs have since argued he has lost objectivity and claim he ignores the crimes of the Bosniaks, or Bosnian Muslims as they were ...  

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- On the second day of the genocide trial of the former Bosnian Serb military commander, Ratko Mladic, prosecutors described in clinical detail the events preceding and during the 1995 killings of some 8,000 men and boys in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica -- Europe's worst  

JEFFREY BROWN: Srebrenica, the siege of Sarajevo, the still raw feelings from the Bosnian War -- the past returned today to a courtroom in the Netherlands. MAN: The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is now in session.  

Former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic went on trial Wednesday on 11 counts of war crimes, including genocide during Bosnian war in the 1990s, which saw the Srebrenica massacre and the bloody siege of Sarajevo.  

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic went on trial for genocide on Wednesday, accused of leading the slaughter of 8,000 unarmed Muslim boys and men in Srebrenica in 1995, Europe's worst atrocity since World War Two.  

Ratko Mladic in courtroom. He was charged with double genocide in Bosnia.(Note: 25,000 women and girls were documented to be mass raped during the Bosnian war, 99% of them Bosnian Muslim victims)General Ratko Mladic ordered his troops to rape Muslim women and girls: "Keep the good ones over there. Enjoy them." He told the Muslim men and boys the massacre awaits them: "There will be blood up to your knees." HE KEPT HIS PROMISE.The following...  

Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic has taunted Srebrenica survivors at the start of his trial for genocide, running his hand across his throat in a gesture of defiance to relatives of the worst massacre in Europe since World War Two.  

THE HAGUE — Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, whose war crimes trial began Wednesday, made a "throat-slitting" gesture at a widow of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre who was in court, she said. "At one moment, Mladic looked toward the public.  

SREBRENICA: Graveyard of Bosniak civilians who were burnt alive by Serb forces in May 1992 during the First Srebrenica Massacre (more than three years before the Srebrenica Genocide)Federal News Agency (FENA) published excerpts of a story published by The Guardian's Ian Taylor. "As warlord Mladic goes on trial, Srebrenica will fall to his followers" draws attention to the upcoming municipal elections in Srebrenica (read background). Ian Taylor...  

Relatives of Bosnian Muslims massacred at Srebrenica in the 1990s hope to take their case to the European Court of Human Rights after they failed in their attempt to sue the United Nations for the deaths.  

Former Bosnian-Serb Army Commander, General Ratko Mladic, is facing 11 charges, including genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in a trial that starts Wednesday at a United Nations tribunal in the Hague. The 70-year-old former commander is accused of ordering the massacre of about 8,000 men and boys outside the Bosnian city of Srebrenica and the bloody siege of Bosnia's capital Sarajevo in the early 1990s. Mladic, a career...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina, April 6 (UPI) -- Bosnian capital Sarajevo marked the 20th anniversary of the Bosnian war with a vast symbolic array of empty red chairs and feeble pronouncements of peaceful coexistence among Bosnian Croats, Muslims and Serbs.  

MOSTAR -- Local elections in the eastern Bosnian municipality of Srebrenica should be held without any special exceptions in relation to the rest of the country, the US ambassador to Sarajevo, Patrick Moon, said during his visit to the town on Friday.According to the Dnevni Avaz newspaper, his statement prompted anger and strong reactions from survivors of 1995's Srebrenica massacre who warned that the consequences of the genocide would be...  

"In a period of only five days, from July 12-16, 1995, the armed forces of [Bosnian Serb leader] Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic expelled the civilian population of Srebrenica and murdered over 7,000 Srebrenica men and boys," prosecutor Peter McCloskey said.  

RATKO MLADIC, the Bosnian Serb warlord of the 1990s, goes on trial for genocide next week at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague almost 17 years after his forces sealed control of eastern Bosnia through the mass murder of more than 8000 local Muslims at Srebrenica.  

The GuardianMladic intended to 'ethnically cleanse Bosnia'Telegraph.co.ukThe first day of Ratko Mladic's trial in The Hague for the massacre of 8000 Muslims at Srebrenica, the first act of genocide on European soil since the Nazi Holocaust, has ended. By Bruno Waterfield, The Hague 12.35: Detention camps set up by Bosnian ...Main war crimes charges filed against Bosnian Serb army commander MladicWashington PostMladic taunts survivors at start...  

The GuardianRatko Mladic intended to 'ethnically cleanse Bosnia'Telegraph.co.ukThe first day of Ratko Mladic's trial in The Hague for the massacre of 8000 Muslims at Srebrenica, the first act of genocide on European soil since the Nazi Holocaust, has ended. By Bruno Waterfield, The Hague 12.35: Detention camps set up by Bosnian ...Ratko Mladic goes on trial for Bosnia war crimesThe GuardianMladic taunts survivors at start of genocide...  

Kadefa Mujic, a representative of the Mothers of Srebrenica group The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague will see the military commander during the 1992-95 Bosnian war accused of genocide, murder, acts of terror and ...  

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the genocide trial of Serb general Ratko Mladic on Thursday described five days of terror in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995, when troops under his command massacred more than 7,000 unarmed ...  

The film of the murder of Dino and five other men near Srebrenica in July 1995 will be typical of the shocking evidence and testimony presented at the first genocide trial in Europe since the Holocaust. "You watch him walk forward, his hands bound behind his back.  

Prosecutors are outlining their evidence against ex-Bosnian Serb army chief General Ratko Mladic over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. On the second day of the 70-year-old's genocide trial in The Hague, Yugoslav war crimes tribunal prosecutors will ...  

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Prosecutors in the genocide trial of Serb general Ratko Mladic on Thursday described five days of terror in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995, when troops under his command massacred more than 7,000 unarmed ...  

THE HAGUE: Prosecutors in the genocide trial of Serb general Ratko Mladic on Thursday described five days of terror in the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica in July 1995, when troops under his command massacred more than 7,000 unarmed Muslim boys ...  

CBS News - Found 3 hours agoUpdated at 1:18 p.m. ET (AP) THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Ratko Mladic was a shadow of the swaggering general who once "held Sarajevo in the palm of his hand" during Bosnia's 1992-95 war as his long-awaited genocide trial opened Wednesday. Yet he still managed to inflame Bosnia's festering war wounds ... Bosnia's Butcher in Court: Ratko Mladic Stands Trial for War Crimes - Time...  

It was in pursuit of a "Greater Serbia" that Mladic allegedly also ordered his troops to "cleanse" other Bosnian towns, driving out Croats, Muslims and other non-Serbs. After the war, Mladic continued his military career but went into hiding in 2000 after ...  

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Prosecutors on Thursday were outlining their evidence of the alleged involvement of former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic in Europe's worst mass murder since World War II, the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.On the second day of the 70-year-old's genocide trial, Yugoslav war crimes tribunal prosecutors will focus on the bloody climax of the 1992-95 Bosnian war, when Serb forces systematically executed some 8...  

Groome began his opening statement by focusing on the plight of ... Crying, she sat in front of the TV with the photos of her dead children in her hands. Sabina Niksic in Srebrenica contributed to this report.  

Mr. Mladic is also accused of directing the 44-month siege of Sarajevo in which 10,000 people died and of overseeing the campaign of ethnic cleansing that forced tens of thousands of Muslims and Croats from their homes. From the beginning ...  

Earlier, prosecutors wrapped up their opening statement in the trial by recounting in painstaking and chilling detail the systematic murder by Bosnian Serb forces commanded by Mladic of thousands of Muslim men and boys in Bosnia’s Srebrenica ...  

Groome said Mladic's forces continued such killings through to 1995, when they massacred some 8,000 Muslim men in the Srebrenica enclave, the worst mass murder in Europe since World War II. Groome signaled that prosecutors would use Mladic's own ...  

Ratko Mladic, wartime chief of the Bosnian Serb army, goes on trial Wednesday accused of carrying out a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing and the massacre of Muslims at Srebrenica, Europe's worst atrocity since Nazi rule. Mladic, now 70, has been ...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina • After the Bosnian war, tens of thousands of Muslims ... so I don't know what could happen here in the next 10 years," said Zlatko Dizdarovic, a former journalist who chronicled the war and now serves as Bosnia's ...  

Bosnian Muslim women wait for the start of a mass funeral ceremony in the Bosnian town of Vlasenica, 100km northeast of Sarajevo, Bosnia on Saturday. – AP SARAJEVO – Several thousand mourners attended the burial Saturday of 26 Muslims killed by Serb ...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia- Herzegovina – After the Bosnian war, tens of thousands of Muslims who'd been driven from their homes by Serb forces during nearly four years of fighting returned to reclaim their property. Many of the returnees repaired and ...  

Karadžić has been accused by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995. The Srebrenica massacre, in which about 8,000 Muslims were killed ...  

(Reuters) - There is something shocking about Ratko Mladic in court. Old and infirm, he is a shadow of the strutting Bosnian Serb general who once struck fear into the hearts of Muslims and Croats. But physical weakness has not dimmed his belief in himself ...  

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina -- After the Bosnian war, tens of thousands of Muslims who’d been driven from their homes by Serb forces during nearly four years of fighting returned to reclaim their property. Many of the returnees repaired ...  

Questioned by the court, Butler said the order must have come from Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic who passed it on to lower rank offices. Apart from the fact that the “order was obviously illegal”, the chain of command functioned normally ...  

I, for one, am looking forward to the bombshell exposing "what began with a lie." And the American "bombing campaign against an emerging post-Communist democracy rooted in Judeo-Christian values--on behalf of tribalistic, blood-code-following nominal Muslims claiming oppression and no less than genocide and ethnic cleansing." (Julia Gorin) Oric is threatening to reveal the truth about Srebrenica (Translation from Vesti Online, Apr. 3...  

Atlanta Journal ConstitutionWomen in Black: The voice of peace in SerbiaAtlanta Journal ConstitutionBy IVANA BZGANOVIC AP Marija Vidic, a 'Women in Black' peace activist writes a banner reading: "Srebrenica genocide against Bosniaks", in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, April 4, 2012. They will be the only Serb group to publicly mark the 20th anniversary ...and more »  

SREBRENICA, BOSNIA — Six months from now, a municipal election will be held in this isolated mining town, the scene of the largest massacre in Europe since World War Two. The town’s current mayor, a 33 year-old Bosnian Muslim, says the election will ...  

Pogacnik said defendants Mustafa Djelilovic, the former head of the nearby Hadzici local assembly ... which focuses on top war crimes indictees such as Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic and his military chief Ratko Mladic.